"Behind the Lens: A Conversation About the Work and Vision of Cinematographer Dean Cundey, ASC"
Moderator: Snehal Patel (Producer & Director, ZEISS - Sales Manager)
Panelist: Dean Cundey, ASC (Jurassic Park, Halloween, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future, Apollo 13)
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Sight, Sound & Story 2019: Behind the Lens with Cinematographer Dean Cundey, ASC Part I
Sight, Sound & Story 2019: Behind the Lens with Dean Cundey, ASC Part II
Sight, Sound & Story 2019: Behind the Lens with Dean Cundey ASC, Part III
Sight, Sound & Story 2019: Behind the Lens with Dean Cundey ASC, Part IV
Sight, Sound & Story 2019: Behind the Lens with Dean Cundey ASC, Part V
Sight, Sound & Story 2019: Behind the Lens with Dean Cundey, ASC Part VII
Sight, Sound & Story 2019 Behind the Lens with Dean Cundey ASC, Part VI
Sean Weiner is a NY-based producer, filmmaker, and the director of the Creative Culture program at the Jacob Burns Film Center. He is a professor of film at Purchase College, a creative in the Private Cabin Collective, and a director for the Upright Citizens Brigade. His producing credits include Death Metal Grandma (NY Times Op Docs, SXSW, Hot Docs), Nevada (Sundance, Vimeo Staff Pick, Oscar-Qualified), and Yves & Variation (BAMcinemaFest, Hamptons International Film Festival). These shorts were produced within the Creative Culture program which connects emerging filmmakers to creative careers through fellowship and residency opportunities.
The New Age of TV: Bringing the Look of Cinema to the Small Screen
Moderator: David Leitner (Director, Producer, and Cinematographer)
Panelists: Frank Prinzi, ASC (The Blacklist, Northern Exposure, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) & Tom Houghton, ASC (Elementary, American Horror Story, Rescue Me, 30 Rock)
Bringing the Look of Cinema to the Small Screen 2019: Tom Houghton, ASC and Frank Prinzi, ASC.
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David Leitner is a director, producer, and Emmy-nominated DP (Chuck Close: Portrait in Progress), with over eighty credits in feature-length dramas and documentaries, including eight Sundance Film Festival premieres. These include his own Vienna is Different: 50 Years After the Anchluss, Alan Berliner’s Nobody’s Business, Sandi Dubowski’s Trembling Before G-d, the Oscar-nominated documentary For All Mankind, for which he spent nine months at NASA’s Johnson Space Center restoring original 16mm lunar footage, and Memories of Overdevelopment, a Cuban follow-up to 1968’s film classic, Memories of Underdevelopment. For over 25 years, as DP, he has photographed hour-long documentaries on iconic writers, artists, and architects for New York’s Checkerboard Film Foundation. Subjects include Brancusi, Picasso, James Salter, Joel Shapiro, Sir John Soane, Ellsworth Kelly, Milton Glaser, Daniel Libeskind, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Eisenman, Roy Lichtenstein, Eric Fischl, Jeff Koons, Frank Stella, and Sol LeWitt. Leitner is also an author, columnist, motion picture technologist and industry consultant. From 1977-1985 he was Director of New Technology at DuArt Film & Video in New York, where he created innovations in optical printing, cine lens testing, film-to-tape transfer, and played a key role introducing Super 16 to the U.S. He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
Emmy award-winning cinematographer Frank Prinzi, ASC, has been an active member of the New York film-making community for years. Frank's eclectic credits range from feature films to television movies, from episodic to documentaries, commercials and short films. Some of his most notable work includes Living in Oblivion, The Best Man, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Frank also shot over 44 episodes of the hit show Northern Exposure, for which he was nominated for an Emmy twice, winning once. His other television work includes five seasons of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Life on Mars and The Blacklist. He has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, ASC since 2001.
"In The Moment: The Art of Cinematography in Documentary Filmmaking"
Moderator: Jim Kamp (Producer)
Panelists: Tom Hurwitz, ASC (American Dream, Harlan County U.S.A., The Queen of Versailles, Wild Man Blues) & Claudia Raschke (RBG, God is the Bigger Elvis, Mad Hot Ballroom)
This panel is sponsored by:
In the Moment The Art of Cinematography in Documentary 2019: Tom Hurwitz ASC & Claudia Raschke
Jim Kamp is an award-winning non-fiction visual storyteller and producer whose work has been seen in leading editorial and broadcast venues. He is currently managing director of content for www.sugaredstudios. Jim also hosts and produces the video podcast www.zeissfullexposure.com
showcasing the work and processes of filmmakers and photographers.
“Capturing the big and the small moments of the amazing world we live in feeds my passion for the art of cinematography. Equally important is that I bear witness to and document the unique stories that unfold before my eyes in a way that dismantles barriers, opens doors, and reveals the truth. I believe that filming intuitively, honestly and without inhibition is a journey that requires a compassionate heart and the ability to see and hear what lies beneath the surface.”
Award-winning cinematographer Claudia Raschke is best known for her ability to bring the rich tones of the motion picture medium to a diverse spectrum of films, from highly stylized commercial endeavors to feature documentaries to lower-budget works of art. Among her many notable award-winning films are Particle Fever, Oscar-nominated God is the Bigger Elvis, Peabody Award-winning Black Magic, Oscar short-listed Mad Hot Ballroom, Atomic Homefront, The Freedom to Marry, A Sea Change, Oscar-nominated
My Architect (add’l DP), Oscar-nominated Small Wonder (add’l DP), Oscar-nominated Sister Rose’s Passion (add’l DP) as well as indie features like Kiss Me Guido, The Last Good Time, No Way Home. Her most recent six-part documentary series for National Geographic will air Fall 2019 and her feature
documentary RBG was nominated for an Oscar and has been screening in theaters around the world.
